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RECIPE INDEX Appetizers Beef When it comes to cooking and my life in the kitchen there is probably only one thing I like as much as getting a new kitchen tool or appliance and that is getting a new toy for this blog! And my latest toy is newly developed software that allows me to have … Read more

Sometimes really clever ideas come when you least expect it! When visiting my friend Eileen in England this summer I asked if I could help set the table for dinner the first night we were there. She said “sure, the dishes are in that drawer” pointing to a deep drawer under her stove top. IN … Read more

This blog post has nothing to do with scriptures or food. Yet again, it has everything to do with Scripture and Food for me! Huh? Two weeks ago I was uploading some recently taken photographs in order to complete my first blog post of the new year. It was during that process I received a … Read more

Do you have any bakers on your Christmas list this year? YES? Then this is the perfect time of year to begin a do-it-yourself gift giving Christmas project — Homemade Vanilla Extract! Last year my cousin Jill shared a recipe with me that she and her sister, my cousin Laura, have made for many years. … Read more

Once upon a time this little girl Alice (on the right) starting stealing … hearts that is. Here she is posing with her older sister Mary. Little Alice with Esther and Arthur Rufer whose heart she stole when she was quite young. With no children of their own they loved taking Alice to the circus … Read more

February 8, 1931. A beautiful day indeed. The day my mother was born in Omaha, Nebraska. I wonder if her mother ever imagined how much joy and love this little girl would bring to so many people in her lifetime? And today she is celebrating 83 years of life under the sun! After 83 birthdays … Read more